Talking of prime minister Boris Johnson and chancellor Rishi Sunak (amongst different British politicians), the Monetary Occasions notes (“Police Subject 50 Extra Fines over Westminster ‘Partygate’ Breaches,” Might 12):
Johnson, his spouse Carrie and Sunak have been final month fined £50 every for attending an unlawful party held at Downing Avenue in June 2020.
That politicians or different rulers fall below the legal guidelines they’ve imposed on abnormal residents needs to be a trigger for celebration as one realizes the dimensions of the spider net these rulers have spun towards particular person liberty. Even when one grants that the latest pandemic was a particular emergency, the very idea of “unlawful party,” additionally enforced on one’s personal property or with the permission of the property proprietor, dramatically illustrates how authorities energy has grown and the way monstrous Leviathan has change into.
This should be attributable to “neoliberalism,” the latest a long time of deregulation and wild-West liberty that authoritarians (and a few mistaken analysts) think about as a scapegoat for every little thing fallacious in at this time’s world!